HEINZ MACK

State Art Academy in Düsseldorf; Degree in art education and work education

1953 - 1956

Studied philosophy at the University of Cologne, state exams

1956

Heinz Mack and Otto Piene founded the group ZERO in 1957 in Dusseldorf

1962 - 1963

Stays in Morocco and Algeria, first light experiments in the desert.

1964 - 1966

Studio in New York, talks about the sub-project at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London and at the Universities of New York and Philadelphia.

1966

The group ZERO separates; last exhibition with Otto Piene and Günther Uecker in Bonn, organized with Uecker in the Rolandseck station, where approximately 1,000 people celebrate the end of the ZERO-time.

1968

Appointed member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin

1970

Appointment as professor in Osaka, Japan; Adolf Grimme Award for the Tele-Mack film

1977

The poems 'Das Silber meine Farbe ist' releases

1978

Lectures at the University of Toronto and in the Congress Hall in Berlin

1979

Travel to Sikkim, Bhutan, India, in the Moroccan desert, to Greece and Spain (Madrid)

1991

The Municipal Art Museum Dusseldorf, is acquiring the ZERO room from documenta III in Kassel in 1964 with works by Mack, Piene and Uecker.

1992

Resignation from the Academy of Arts, Berlin.

1997

Stint in the desert of Oman

2001

Numerous exhibitions and publications on the occasion of the 70th Birthday

2006 - 2007

the Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin honors him with a major exhibition

AWARDS

2017

Moses Mendelssohn Medal

2015

unanimously voted an honorary member of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (de) by the academy's senate

2012

Cultural Prize of the city of Dortmund’s arts council (de)

2011

Grand Federal Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany (de)

1992

Major cultural award of the Rhineland Sparkassen (de)

1979

1st prize in the international competition Licht 79 in Eindhoven (nl)

1971

Recognition Award of the Film Biennale in Venice for the Tele-Mack film